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“mm 72 presents: COUGHING (abridged)”: As I wrote in my email announcement of this mm theme: “ Yes, coughing, the bane of concerts. Please bring recordings of concerts in which coughing can be heard. I doubt that I’ll find any relevant movies between now & then. I’m not even sure I can find any audio recordings. If nothing else, we can improvise coughing together. I know this sounds like one of those things that only I would find musically stimulating & amusing but...
Topics: mm, coughing, november 30 2016, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, Ryan Broughman, Unfinished Symphonies,...
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Radio 1980: After TESTES-3 & VD-RADIO (see "Radio 1979"), this group of collaborators moved onto (301)962-0210 on the 1st anniversary of B.U.T.N. on January, 1980, with a public event at the Proposal Gallery in Baltimore. Various telephone options were beginning to be introduced like call forwarding & call waiting & we decided to experiment with them. For the Proposal Gallery event we had the calls forwarded to the gallery. (301)962-0210 became much more technically...
Topics: (301)962-0210, B.U.T.N., tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, telephones, experimental music, radio, WJHU
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Radio 2001: In 2001, I made 5 prerecorded radio programs for "97.9, Pittsburgh Pirates, Stealers of the Airwaves" & burned them to CD-R. The 1st 20 tracks here are from the 5th of these: "Us Animals - Part 1". This was the most elaborately edited one & had a laboriously assembled combination of such things as a record of repetitive phrases meant to 'teach' (or torment) a pet bird into imitating combined with other things. The last 3 tracks are also the last 3 tracks...
Topics: radio, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE
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"365": I like to be productive. I decided that I'd shoot a short movie of me playing (M)Usic every day of 2018. At 1st, I was imagining playing a short piano solo everyday. This would stimulate me to practice more & challenge me to try to make the short solos very varied. Then I decided that it would be more fun to play different instruments. I collect instruments, getting them cheaply when I can find them. So I get them from thrift stores, yard sales, pawn shops. ...
Topics: tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, 2018, experimental music, experimental usic, improvisation, duets,...
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Piano Illiterature - Volume 7: In 1998, my friend etta cetera compiled a publication called "Edge Wise" that was about last words. For it, I contributed the longest word that I knew of at the time: the chemical name for tryptophan synthetase A protein, a 1,913-letter enzyme with 267 amino acids. Thanks to "Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of Unusual, Obscure, and Preposterous Words" for that one. The idea was that instead of saying something pithy, I imagined myself saying something...
Topics: piano, electronic music, experimental music, sky-diving, tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE, Titin, Elisa...
Source: Titin, the movie
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" 2018.06.18 duet with Tom DiVenti — Eastern Pennsylvania — via FaceTime ": Starting on January 1st, 2018, I began making a movie every day of me playing (M)Usic. The plan was to shoot one every day of 2018 & to string together excerpts from each of them in chronological order to make a feature-length movie to be called "365". Along the way I decided to compile monthly reports named by month & year, e.g.: "January, 2018", & to release these...
Topics: duets, 2018, June 2018, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, free improvisation, usic, Tom DiVenti, samples,...
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" 2018.06.26 duet with Jason Belcher - Pittsburgh, PA - in person ": Starting on January 1st, 2018, I began making a movie every day of me playing (M)Usic. The plan was to shoot one every day of 2018 & to string together excerpts from each of them in chronological order to make a feature-length movie to be called "365". Along the way I decided to compile monthly reports named by month & year, e.g.: "January, 2018", & to release these online a month...
Topics: duets, 2018, June 2018, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, free improvisation, Jason Belcher, melodica,...
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" 2018.06.30 duet with Jeff Weston - Pittsburgh, PA - in person ": Starting on January 1st, 2018, I began making a movie every day of me playing (M)Usic. The plan was to shoot one every day of 2018 & to string together excerpts from each of them in chronological order to make a feature-length movie to be called "365". Along the way I decided to compile monthly reports named by month & year, e.g.: "January, 2018", & to release these online a month...
Topics: duets, 2018, June 2018, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, free improvisation, Jeff Weston, contrabass,...
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"1st Non-Existent International Neoist Apartment Festival in the Year 000": in Adelaide, South Australia from Monday, March 20th, 000 'til Saturday, March 25th, 000 (with additional action on Tuesday & Wednesday, April 4 & 5, 000 & Thursday, June 8, 000) [etta cetera & I arrived in Adelaide on Sunday, March 19th & were met at the airport by festival conspirators Karen Eliot & Jen. I never saw Jen again in connection with any neoist activities. A vegetarian...
Topics: neoism, anti-neoism, Adelaide, Australia, 2000, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, radio, etta cetera,...
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"Bob Cobbing / Movie Trivia / Hypnopedagogy": I've sometimes refrained from uploading the movies of mine that I think are the best in the hope that I'll get paid for presenting them in in-person appearances. As I've gotten older & my screening opportunities have dwindled to almost nothing it seems that it's time to put some of these online before they disappear from history altogether. 4 of the most ambitious 16mm films I made were "Subtitles (16mm version)" (still not...
Topics: tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, Bob Cobbing, experimental film, direct-on-film, found footage, 16mm
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Radio 1979: This series of recordings that're labeled: "Radio (+ a year)" is the most complete selection of my (tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE"s) endeavors in radio. It begins in 1979 not because I was working with radio, per se, but because I was working with an audio interactive medium akin to radio but more accessible for uncensored participation to the general public. From the very beginning my interest was in free speech, music that doesn't get enough airplay, & more...
Topics: radio, tENTATIVELY-a-cONVENIENCE, telephones, B.U.T.N., TESTES-3, VD-RADIO, experimental music
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“7th Annual Polish Hill May Day Parade 2016”: Polish Hill is a small neighborhood where an unusually large group of politically minded creative people live. Every year we have a May Day Parade to celebrate worker’s gains & spring. The day is typically preceded by a cabaret the night before. The parade goes all the way through the neighborhood & ends at a park where there’s food & alcohol available for free or donation, a maypole, & a baseball game. For the last 5...
Topics: May Day, parade, anarchy
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Radio 1995: In 1995 I was living briefly in NYC to organize Gen Ken Montgomery's substantial sound art archive. While I was there I was also presenting a screening at the Segue Foundation. Partially to promote the screening & partially to promote my still fairly new "Usic minus the square root of negative one" record & mainly just to have fun on the radio with my friend Fabio Roberti, I went on the "Free Form Irritainment with Fabio Esq." program. This turned into a...
Topics: radio, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, Fabio Roberti, WFMU
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Piano Illiterature - Volume 3: 2004.07.16 Persisting Resisting - 7:23 - tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE & Michael Pestel Michael Pestel is one of my oldest & most continual collaborators in Pittsburgh. This despite his having moved to Middletown, CT, around 2004. We met in 1997, a little over a year after I moved to Pittsburgh & we almost immediately started working on projects together. In 2004 I visited him in Middletown & I conceived of the 2nd of what I've come to call the...
Topics: tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, piano, Low Classical Usic
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" 2018.06.17 duet with Eric Lipsky — Pittsburgh, PA — in person ": Starting on January 1st, 2018, I began making a movie every day of me playing (M)Usic. The plan was to shoot one every day of 2018 & to string together excerpts from each of them in chronological order to make a feature-length movie to be called "365". Along the way I decided to compile monthly reports named by month & year, e.g.: "January, 2018", & to release these online a...
Topics: duets, 2018, June 2018, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, free improvisation, usic, Eric Lipsky, cello,...
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" 2018.06.15 duet with Warren Burt — Australia — via Skype ": Starting on January 1st, 2018, I began making a movie every day of me playing (M)Usic. The plan was to shoot one every day of 2018 & to string together excerpts from each of them in chronological order to make a feature-length movie to be called "365". Along the way I decided to compile monthly reports named by month & year, e.g.: "January, 2018", & to release these online a month...
Topics: duets, 2018, June 2018, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, free improvisation, usic, Warren Burt, iPad...
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" 2018.06.11 duet with Alex Stanton — Pittsburgh, PA — in person ": Starting on January 1st, 2018, I began making a movie every day of me playing (M)Usic. The plan was to shoot one every day of 2018 & to string together excerpts from each of them in chronological order to make a feature-length movie to be called "365". Along the way I decided to compile monthly reports named by month & year, e.g.: "January, 2018", & to release these online a...
Topics: duets, 2018, June 2018, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, free improvisation, usic, Alex Stanton, guitar,...
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Radio 1999: In 1999, I cofounded the "Street Rats" under the name of "RATical" with Will Rat for Iraq & Rita Rodentia. We were an anarchist activist group - or, as I prefer, an IMP Activist group. Having driven to Boston to attend the version there of the international June 18th Day of Resistance Against Capitalism (in this case, the "Carnival Against Capital"), we met Dan the Bagel-Man while protesting in the financial district. He hooked us up with Chuck U....
Topics: radio, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, etta cetera, Rita Rodentia, Street Rat Liberation Front, No...
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"Spectral Evidence": This was shot from September 12-21, 2011 in Cape Cod, Salem, & Cape Ann, Massachussetts. I learned about the idea of "spectral evidence" in Salem where dream 'evidence' was enough to convict people during the Witch Trials. Sociopathic young women could claim that they saw a person they knew with a cat in their dream - thusly 'proving' that the accused had a 'familiar', an animal that assisted with their witchcraft. I applied the term as a title...
Topics: Massachussetts, Cape Cod, Cape Ann, Salem, spectral evidence, Vermin Supreme, tENTATIVELY a...
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Radio 1983: During this time from 1979 to 1983, my friends & I had become somewhat notorious in Baltimore. As "Tim Ore" I'd premiered the "B.T.O.U.C." (BalTimOre Underground Club) & had an article about in the front page of an early edition of the Baltimore Sun, one of the 2 daily papers at the time. The 1st track here is an actual news report on this event on a local easy listening station. I'd been invited by WJHU DJ Steve Stec (see the "Radio 1979"...
Topics: radio, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, RAN of NAR, Fingernail on a Blackboard, WJHU, experimental music
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" 2018.06.12 duet with Roger Dannenberg — Pittsburgh, PA — in person ": Starting on January 1st, 2018, I began making a movie every day of me playing (M)Usic. The plan was to shoot one every day of 2018 & to string together excerpts from each of them in chronological order to make a feature-length movie to be called "365". Along the way I decided to compile monthly reports named by month & year, e.g.: "January, 2018", & to release these online a...
Topics: duets, 2018, June 2018, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, free improvisation, usic, Roger Dannenberg,...
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" 2018.06.10 duet with Kenny Haney — Pittsburgh, PA — in person ": Starting on January 1st, 2018, I began making a movie every day of me playing (M)Usic. The plan was to shoot one every day of 2018 & to string together excerpts from each of them in chronological order to make a feature-length movie to be called "365". Along the way I decided to compile monthly reports named by month & year, e.g.: "January, 2018", & to release these online a...
Topics: duets, 2018, June 2018, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, free improvisation, usic, Kenny Haney, banjo,...
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“Hindsight (installation version)”: “Hindsight” is the name given to a series of 3 movies that I made to quasi-document my walks in Schenley Park in Pittsburgh. I love the park & am very grateful to have such a place in which to enjoy nature. The longest of the 3 movies, all made from the same material but edited in different ways, is on my “onesownthoughts” YouTube channel. This “installation version” is meant to be projected covering an entire white wall in a dark...
Topics: Hindsight, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, nature, parks, walking, keying, green suits, neoism
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"2018.06.0 7 duet with Coal Hornet — Pittsburgh, PA — in person": Starting on January 1st, 2018, I began making a movie every day of me playing (M)Usic. The plan was to shoot one every day of 2018 & to string together excerpts from each of them in chronological order to make a feature-length movie to be called "365". Along the way I decided to compile monthly reports named by month & year, e.g.: "January, 2018", & to release these online a month...
Topics: duets, 2018, June 2018, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, Coal Hornet, free improvisation, usic,...
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Piano Illiterature - Volume 4: 2008.12.21 Systems Management (middle) - 23:03 - HiTEC 048 HiTEC, Histrionic Thought Experiment Cooperative, was an orchestra founded by myself (tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE) in July of 2008 that played 72 times before its demise in March of 2010. 60 of these times were rehearsals, 5 were classroom situations at the Mattress Factory & CMU, 1 was a special-focus recording session, & 6 were the main performances. This 48th session was a 'Full Group' one in...
Topics: tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, piano, Low Classical Usic
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" 2018.06.14 duet with Devin Sherman — Pittsburgh, PA — in person ": Starting on January 1st, 2018, I began making a movie every day of me playing (M)Usic. The plan was to shoot one every day of 2018 & to string together excerpts from each of them in chronological order to make a feature-length movie to be called "365". Along the way I decided to compile monthly reports named by month & year, e.g.: "January, 2018", & to release these online a...
Topics: duets, 2018, June 2018, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, free improvisation, usic, Devin Sherman,...
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"2018.06.0 3 duet with Jim Storch —Pittsburgh, PA — in person": Starting on January 1st, 2018, I began making a movie every day of me playing (M)Usic. The plan was to shoot one every day of 2018 & to string together excerpts from each of them in chronological order to make a feature-length movie to be called "365". Along the way I decided to compile monthly reports named by month & year, e.g.: "January, 2018", & to release these online a month...
Topics: duets, 2018, June 2018, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, Jim Storch, free improvisation, usic,...
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"2018.06.0 5 duet with Rich Randall —Pittsburgh, PA — in person": Starting on January 1st, 2018, I began making a movie every day of me playing (M)Usic. The plan was to shoot one every day of 2018 & to string together excerpts from each of them in chronological order to make a feature-length movie to be called "365". Along the way I decided to compile monthly reports named by month & year, e.g.: "January, 2018", & to release these online a month...
Topics: duets, 2018, June 2018, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, Rich Randall, free improvisation, usic,...
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“METRONOME (Endangered)”: This is the 10th molecule of the projected 15 of the Endangered Grid. The "Endangered Grid" is part of the Score Movie for my projected in-progress 'opera' called "Endangered Languages, Endangered Culture, Endangered Ideas". 2 of the molecules are on my onesownthoughts YouTube channel. The other 7 are on Vimeo. - November 13, 2016 notes from tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE
Topics: tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, metronome, endangered languages endangered cultures endangered ideas
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"MM 76 RELEASE (medium rare)": On Sunday, November 27, 2011, I organized the 1st of a series of "mm"s (m(usic(ian's))m(eetings)) to discuss, listen to, & play (m)usic. Most of these were at my house. "mm" is pronounced drawn out, as if appreciately, "mmmmmmmmmmmm". In 2013, we released the "MM 26" CD showcasing some of the talents of some of the more regular attendees. Four years later, & 50 mms later, we released a 2nd CD,...
Topics: MM 76 CD, Glitter Box Theatre, Noah Rectenwald, Warren Burt, Ben Opie, Meg Graham, tENTATIVELY a...
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Radio 1987: In 1987, I was invited to perform as part of "Ultimatum II", a weeklong performance festival that brought in such greats as Steve McCaffery from Toronto. I created an elaborate piece called "Generic As-Beenism" that introduced a showing of my then new 3D brain tattoo to the audience. For this part of the piece, I made 200 pairs of 3D glasses. A description of this performance can be found as the September 13 entry here:...
Topics: radio, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, Montréal, Ultimatum II, Generic As-Beenism
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" 2018.06.21 duet with Ben Opie — Pittsburgh, PA — in person ": Starting on January 1st, 2018, I began making a movie every day of me playing (M)Usic. The plan was to shoot one every day of 2018 & to string together excerpts from each of them in chronological order to make a feature-length movie to be called "365". Along the way I decided to compile monthly reports named by month & year, e.g.: "January, 2018", & to release these online a month...
Topics: duets, 2018, June 2018, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, free improvisation, Ben Opie, tenor sax,...
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Radio 2000: 2000 was a fantastic year for me because my collaborator etta cetera & I got to go to Malaysia & Australia & were very, very busy there for 3 months. Our initial motive for going there was to participate in, & basically CREATE, what became (un)known as the "1st Non-Existent International Neoist Apartment Festival in the Year 000". The 1st radio presentation was in Adelaide, where the festival was(n't) happening. Through our host, Karen Eliot, we were...
Topics: radio, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, 3D, 3RRR, 3CR, etta cetera, neoism, Money Against Capitalism,...
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" 2018.06.19 duet with Unfinished Symphonies — Pittsburgh, PA — in person ": Starting on January 1st, 2018, I began making a movie every day of me playing (M)Usic. The plan was to shoot one every day of 2018 & to string together excerpts from each of them in chronological order to make a feature-length movie to be called "365". Along the way I decided to compile monthly reports named by month & year, e.g.: "January, 2018", & to release these...
Topics: duets, 2018, June 2018, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, pop music, Unfinished Symphonies, electric bass,...
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"6 Fingers Crossed Country T.Ore/Tour": For 8 months prior to April, 1986, I laboriously planned a tour by writing to people & asking if they'd be interested in setting up a show for me. At least one person told me something to the effect that he only wanted to do that for 'important people'. The San Francisco Cinematheque folks had to be convinced that I wasn't fictitious. Finally, I had 9 gigs lined up: April 17, 1986: Tufts University in Massachusetts (thanks to Owen...
Topics: 6 Fingers Crossed Country T.Ore/Tour, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, booed usic, experimental...
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Somewhat to my astonishment, people have been downloading both the audio files to Volume 1 of this "Piano Illiterature" & the explanatory notes. BUT ONLY TO VOLUME 1! Why?! Hey, people! Volume 2's "Interpretive Duncing" is one of the best things I've ever done! Anyway, because people have discovered this material, I've decided to write this brief intro & to finally add the descriptions of the last 3 pieces after "Bogus Piano Concerto". SO, why do I call...
Topic: Low Classical Usic
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Radio 2010: Thanks to poet/poem Amy Catanzano, I was in Boulder to perform at the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University - a place that I'd wanted to do something at for decades because of its association with such great writers as Allen Ginsberg & William S. Burroughs. Thanks also to Amy, a chapbook of mine called "vii" ("seven" in Roman numerals) had been produced for the occasion. After not having seen my charming old friend Little Fyodor...
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As of the day I'm writing this, Friday, April 4, 2008EV, there've been 4,824 downloads of Volume I of my "Piano Illiterature" & 48 downloads of Volume II. 1% of the downloads for Volume I. Volume I has notes, Volume II doesn't. Maybe that makes the difference. Maybe Volume II is too 'avant-garde'. Dunno. I hereby will add at least some minimal notes for II & see if the downloads increase. Strangely, even w/ that quantity of downloads there's not a single rating or review....
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""EL" IP (abridged)": "Endangered Languages, Endangered Cultures, Endangered Ideas" is the name of an 'opera' that I started working on in February of 2016. I picked 15 instruments that I have in my house to use as part of its instrumentation & then had mms (m(usic(ian's))m(eetings)) at my house that revolved around these instruments. I then made a movie of each of these meetings. These initial movies included whatever talking occurred & were usually...
Topics: tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, endangered languages, opera, experimental music, experimental movies
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"2018.06.0 3 duet with Caleb Gamble —Pittsburgh, PA — in person": Starting on January 1st, 2018, I began making a movie every day of me playing (M)Usic. The plan was to shoot one every day of 2018 & to string together excerpts from each of them in chronological order to make a feature-length movie to be called "365". Along the way I decided to compile monthly reports named by month & year, e.g.: "January, 2018", & to release these online a month...
Topics: duets, 2018, June 2018, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, Caleb Gamble, experimental music, experimental...
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" 2018.06.25 duet with San Salamandra - Pittsburgh, PA - in person ": Starting on January 1st, 2018, I began making a movie every day of me playing (M)Usic. The plan was to shoot one every day of 2018 & to string together excerpts from each of them in chronological order to make a feature-length movie to be called "365". Along the way I decided to compile monthly reports named by month & year, e.g.: "January, 2018", & to release these online a month...
Topics: duets, 2018, June 2018, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, free improvisation, San Salamandra, electric...
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Dec 5, 2012
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Radio 1986: In the spring of 1986, I embarked on my "6 Fingers Crossed Country T.Ore/Tour" - initially with my girlfriend of the time & violinist/lyreist Norman Yeh. We were joined for one show in Montréal by John Berndt. This was John's 1st improvising show. The tour was under the name of "tENTATIVELY, a cONVENIENCE & t he booed usicians". At each gig, locals played as part of the program while I presented films & videos of mine & danced with no pants on,...
Topics: radio, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, 6 Fingers Crossed Country T.Ore/Tour, WMFO, KGNU, Little Fyodor,...
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Aug 11, 2018
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" 2018.06.29 duet with Stephen Bradley - Baltimore, MD - via FaceTime ": Starting on January 1st, 2018, I began making a movie every day of me playing (M)Usic. The plan was to shoot one every day of 2018 & to string together excerpts from each of them in chronological order to make a feature-length movie to be called "365". Along the way I decided to compile monthly reports named by month & year, e.g.: "January, 2018", & to release these online a...
Topics: duets, 2018, June 2018, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, free improvisation, Stephen Bradley,...
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Dec 20, 2015
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"Monty Cantsin Rides Again": "Monty Cantsin" is a name invented by Mail Artist David Zack in 1978 intended to be a name that anyone can use to contribute to its myth of the Open Pop Star. By becoming Monty Cantsin you become the Open Pop Star & what you do in his/her name becomes a part of the Open Pop Star legend. "Monty Cantsin" is mainly associated with a cultural conspiracy called "Neoism". Neoists have consciously avoided having the...
Topics: Monty Cantsin, HTEETH, 3TON Cinema, Neoism, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE
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Sep 9, 2018
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"UNDERAPPRECIATED Day 2": In January, 2018, I conceived of an UNDERAPPRECIATED MOVIEMAKERS FESTIVAL. This idea appealed to me immensely partially because I thought it was an interesting curatorial spin to choose work not on the basis of what type of movie it was (say: experimental, documentary, trash, horror, Asian, Queer, etc) but on whether the moviemakers themselves considered themselves & their work to be UNDERAPPRECIATED. As the criteria that I would judge the entries by...
Topics: UNDERAPPRECIATED MOVIEMAKERS FESTIVAL, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, Dick Turner, Florian Cramer,...
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Feb 1, 2017
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"BIRD CALLS & SONGS (Endangered)": This is from the last of 15 INSTRUMENT SPECIFIC mms (m(usic(ian's))m(eetings)) that were organized to generate footage to then be culled from as part of my in-progress 'opera' Score Movie entitled "Endangered Languages, Endangered Cultures, Endangered Ideas" &, as such, the last of the (Endangered) movies. The theme really extends to all-things-BIRD rather than just BIRD CALLS & SONGS since it includes things like movies that...
Topics: birds, bird calls, bird songs, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, mm, Ben Opie, Michael Pestel, David...
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Dec 5, 2012
12/12
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Radio 1985: Shortly after my apartment was set fire to by an arsonist, probably to get me out of the neighborhood because I was helping the street drunks (See "Radio 1983"), I got a call from a Tufts University WMFO DJ Tim Clifford in Massachusetts wanting to interview me about activities in BalTimOre. I'd had a very rough time recently & was seriously expecting to be murdered. Track 1 is this phone call, broadcast live if I understood correctly. Track 2 is what Tim & fellow...
Topics: radio, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, WMFO, CFRO, G.X. Jupiter Larsen, Tim Clifford, Own O'Toole,...
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Aug 1, 2018
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" 2018.06.24 duet with William Davison — Toronto, Canada — via Skype ": Starting on January 1st, 2018, I began making a movie every day of me playing (M)Usic. The plan was to shoot one every day of 2018 & to string together excerpts from each of them in chronological order to make a feature-length movie to be called "365". Along the way I decided to compile monthly reports named by month & year, e.g.: "January, 2018", & to release these online a...
Topics: duets, 2018, June 2018, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, free improvisation, William Davison,...
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Jul 24, 2018
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" 2018.06.20 duet with Spat Cannon — Leeds, England — via Skype ": Starting on January 1st, 2018, I began making a movie every day of me playing (M)Usic. The plan was to shoot one every day of 2018 & to string together excerpts from each of them in chronological order to make a feature-length movie to be called "365". Along the way I decided to compile monthly reports named by month & year, e.g.: "January, 2018", & to release these online a...
Topics: uets, 2018, June 2018, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, free imporovisation, Spat Cannon, electric bass,...
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"2018.06.01 duet with Ben Opie — Pittsburgh, PA — in person": Starting on January 1st, 2018, I began making a movie every day of me playing (M)Usic. The plan was to shoot one every day of 2018 & to string together excerpts from each of them in chronological order to make a feature-length movie to be called "365". Along the way I decided to compile monthly reports named by month & year, e.g.: "January, 2018", & to release these online a month...
Topics: duets, 2018, June 2018, tENTATIVELY a cONVENIENCE, Ben Opie, experimental music, experimental usic,...
